About an hour ago, at 2:55 PM, a shooting was reported at the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley. The SF Chronicle is reporting that the police shot a man with a gun, who is alive and off site (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/15/BA4U1LVL80.DTL). The Contra Costa Times is linking the shooting to the Occupy movement, with a timeline [...]
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Shooting at UC Berkeley
Posted in articles, UC Berkeley, tagged Business school, Haas, shooting on November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fred Korematsu Day
Posted in events, Japanese Internment, UC Berkeley, tagged Fred Korematsu Day on January 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This Sunday, January 30, 2011, is the FIRST EVER Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution (at least in California)! In 1942, when the US government was rounding up Japanese Americans and sending them to internment camps, Fred Korematsu refused to go and was convicted for defying the government. He took his case [...]
The Latest from Desmond Tutu
Posted in articles, Palestine, UC Berkeley, tagged Desmond Tutu on April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu, speaking to UC Berkeley students (Read the whole letter.): I suggest, with humility, that the harm suffered from being confronted with opinions that challenge one’s own pales in comparison to the harm done by living a life under occupation and daily denial of basic rights and dignity. It is not with [...]
